LUBBOCK, Texas—No charges will be pursued in the case of a Lubbock television station reporter arrested last year after trying to gauge security at two Amarillo hospitals, according to an agreement announced Saturday.

The reporter was arrested after making the undercover visits in March 2007, a couple of weeks after a New Mexico woman dressed in hospital scrubs and took a newborn from a Lubbock hospital.

The agreement between between Panhandle authorities and the reporter’s employer called for Cecelia Lynn Coy-Jones and NBC affiliate KCBD-TV to publish a letter of apology in the the Amarillo Globe-News and pay $600 to cover costs police incurred responding to the incident, according to an e-mail from Randall Sims, the Potter County district attorney.

The letter was published Saturday, Sims told The Associated Press.

The station and Coy-Jones also agreed to not pursue civil claims as a result of reporter’s arrest.

Sims said that though Coy-Jones and the station complied with the conditions, he believed the agreement was “breached” because he did not get notice of when the apology would be published. He also said its contents differed from a news release the station issued late Friday.

The apology that appeared in the newspaper lacked “sincerity,” Sims said.

“It also reflects an attitude of, ’I am smarter than you are,’ and in this case, of being above the law,” his e-mail stated. “Even as long as I have been a prosecutor, it is still disappointing when you give people the opportunity to seize the moment and they do not.”

The apology was published as a 2-inch-by-5-inch advertisement, with a heading or signatures. It stated: “Any alleged violation of Texas law, should such have occurred, was an unintended consequence of what we believed to be a beneficial test of security.”

The sentence was not included in the station’s news release.

The news release also said, in part: “...these types of investigations are the obligation of a news leader like KCBD. NewsChannel 11 will continue to do groundbreaking investigations that push the envelope and test the system. We are proud of Cecelia and all of her work in that area.”

Dan Jackson, KCBD general manager, declined in an e-mail to comment on Sims’ assertions.

Police arrested Coy-Jones on two charges of attempted aggravated kidnapping, second-degree felonies each punishable by up to 20 years and a fine up to $10,000.

Investigators later turned over to the office of the county attorney to pursue a misdemeanor charge of false alarm.

A Potter County Grand Jury reviewed the matter late last year and approved the agreement, Sims stated.